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30 Nov 23

Transforming the Finance & Supply Chain Function in the 2024 Asian Economy

In a rapidly evolving landscape, CFOs need to play a more dynamic role than ever in aligning and integrating planning across finance and their supply chains. It’s not just beneficial-it’s imperative. Organisations across the Asia Pacific have withstood an unprecedented pace and depth of change post-pandemic. A recent Gartner study illustrated the importance of the […]

05 Jul 23

How Digital CFO Aligns Finance and Operation Planning to Achieve Business Excellence

Breaking down the traditional silos between enterprise financial and operational planning processes is essential to deliver transformative business value. Research from Gartner suggests that organizations that have invested in consistent and continuous planning beyond the finance domain into their operations will be better placed to withstand the challenges of business agility, resilience and mitigating the […]

13 Apr 23

Becoming a digital CFO: 7 practical tips on how Finance can lead digital transformation.

In a recent Gartner study, a majority of CFOs declared that they were more concerned with growth tha the CEO. The finance department, perhaps up to this point only asked to sign the cheques for growth efforts elsewhere, is now where the company is turning to not only fund the growth, but identify where growth […]

20 Jun 22

How Digital Transformation Enables CFOs to Achieve Organizational Agility and Resilience

By Kobkul Chintanawetchakul, XP&A Practice PMsquare (Thailand) It is inevitable to say that our world is in the VUGA era: V -Volatility U -Uncertainty C -Complexity A -Ambiguity. Thai CFO also faces uncertainty from the global situation, such as the spread of COVID-19, Russo-Ukrainian War and FED & QE Tapering which bring about serious impact […]

20 May 22

Security Bulletin | IBM Planning Analytics Workspace | CVE-2022-22965

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace | CVE-2022-22965 — IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Update Required IBM has released a security bulletin advising that IBM Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0 is affected, but not classified as vulnerable, by a remote code execution in Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22965). Since Planning Analytics Workspace uses few components exposed to the vulnerability, it is […]

07 Apr 22

CPM Group achieves Silver Partner status with Anaplan

CPM Group achieves Silver Partner status with Anaplan The CPM Group is pleased to announce that we have achieved Silver Partner Status with Anaplan. We have been working closely with the Anaplan team over the past year to drive better outcomes and deliver significant value to customers across Asia Pacific in financial planning, workforce management, […]

15 Nov 21

Benefits of Cloud Pak for Data in Planning Analytics

Businesses continue to grow into a more dynamic version of themselves. Thus, the need to harness digital transformation to jump-start growth will be more challenging. Nevertheless, implementing an effective planning analytics process for your organisation will set your company up for success. IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a perfect tool for any company that […]

05 Nov 21

Changing Your Mindset to Doing Less

In his 2020 CEO Cover interview Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla said that business leaders should spend less time on financial reporting, less time in meeting rooms and on PowerPoint, and more time trying to make their product the best it can be. Whether you describe yourself as a leader or not, the chances are […]

26 Oct 21

TM1 at Scale

By Yuri Kudryavcev, Associate Consultant at Cornerstone I recently had a chance to work on a very large TM1 system and one of my colleagues asked ‘so what can we learn from it?’ This question got me thinking a bit past the usual ‘just don’t do this’ banter and lead to this post. I think…

21 Oct 21

What’s New in IBM Planning Analytics – Version 2.0.52

What’s Covered Updates to the Set Editor (Workspace and PA for Excel) Maximize the Set Editor (Workspace and PA for Excel) Scrolling Improved Drag and Drop Procedure (Workspace and PA for Excel) Easy Access to Functions (Workspace and PA for Excel) Configure Default View Settings for Available Members and Current Set Panes (Workspace and PA […]

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